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Since Technetium is man made and not found on earth there is only so much on earth, and that amount dempends on how much the scientist make of it. Also since it is not naturally found on earth that it can only be in whatever state of matter the scientist make it in, and can only be wherever it is put since it does not have legs and can not walk.

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History

  • Technetium got it's name from the Greek work "technetos" meaning artificial when it was discovered in 1937 by Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segre
  • Technetium got its symbol from the letters in the name of it and it couldn't have Te because that symbol Te was already taken
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  1. of Electrons
#of Protons
  1. of Neutrons
Density
Melting point
Boiling point
55
43
43
11 g/cm3
2157° C
(3915° F)
4265° C
(7709° F)

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Uses

Technetium has many of uses ranging from medical uses to uses of blowing stuff up.
  • Radioactive medical purposes
  • Reseach purposes
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  • Preventing Rust

Interesing Facts

  • Radioactive
  • Used for medical purposes
  • found on some giant red stars
  • Priced at 2800 dollors per gram intell 1960 then it went down to 60 dollors per gram but big_red.pngonly to O.R.N.L. (Oak Ridge National Lavotories) holders
  • First element to be manifactured by humans

Sources

http://www.technetium.org/
[[http://www.education.jlab.org\]]
http://www.periodic-table.org
www.**ornl**.gov
www.tableofelements.info